In the Chiltern Hills and Berkshire Downs, almost 200 communities and 70,000 properties are at risk of groundwater flooding. Due to groundwater flooding typically affecting small rural communities, it can be hard for people to support one another. It also means that groundwater flooding often fails to qualify for flood management funding.
Did you know hedges were used as living fences, marking ownership and keeping animals in or out of a field? However, over time, gaps in the hedgerows develop allowing animals to escape or trample crops. For years this has been managed with a technique called hedge laying, which involves cutting each stem and laying it down...
LUC are delighted to have been commissioned by Natural England to review the boundary of the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), as part of Natural England’s Landscape Designation Programme. This project will assess natural beauty and the desirability of extension of the AONB around the whole boundary.
A new book is being published that describes the story of the successful reintroduction of red kites to the UK in 1990s. The book details how the Chilterns was selected as the initial location for the establishment of young chicks brought in from Sweden and Spain. The book’s author, Dr Mike Pienkowski, was the Chairman...
Our Chalk Cherries and Chairs landscape partnership team are always busy out and about with people enhancing the landscape of the central Chilterns, working to encourage native wildlife and plantlife. Conservation volunteers and farmers and even young people, school children and business people are all involved caring for their local green spaces in the Chilterns...
Is your house chock-a-block with children’s toys already, and you’re not looking forward to a new influx after Christmas presents are unwrapped? Are you living with the person who has everything and just doesn’t need anything else? If you’re looking for a Christmas present for a friend or family member who doesn’t want to gather...
